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Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong
Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong
American Studies ETDs
The United States government has spent more than $125 billion since 2001 to prepare the nation for bioterrorism. This dissertation examines the emergence of bioterrorism as a credible threat in the contemporary moment, considering how the preparedness practices of the security state constitute new biopolitical formations. To explore how changing ways of knowing disease and risk are reshaping communities, this multi-sited study investigates the material outcomes of biosecurity in people's lives. It shows how complex histories of disease and terror are remade in the modern age to bring about new spaces and forms of biological citizenship.Through interview, observation and detailed …
Expressions Of Another Center: Borderlands Visual Theory & The Art Of Luis Jimenez, Eric Castillo
Expressions Of Another Center: Borderlands Visual Theory & The Art Of Luis Jimenez, Eric Castillo
American Studies ETDs
An artist who constantly challenged various social and political boundaries, Jimenez and his art contribute to a growing discourse about U.S. sculpture and 21st century American art. By combining various methodologies such as formal analysis, visual analysis, and critical biography, I will underscore the significance of Luis Jimenez's art in 21st century American art. Jimenez's art functions autobiographically particular moment in his life affected his art in many ways. His time in Mexico City, New York, and Rome are a few pivotal moments that shifted the focus of his art and encouraged him to return to the Southwest where his …